Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheer, outstanding inability, Lieutenant Hutton quickly rises to the top of the nut heap. He is a go-day-wonder-how-he-made-it who begins the war as a casualty (he tries to catch a baseball with his ear), continues it as a sad sack (he reports for duty by hitting the wrong pedal, ramming his jeep through the side of a building, parking it smartly beside the C.O.'s desk), but ends it as a hero (he captures the gefilte-fisherman). The nut occasionally has a date: Lieutenant Prentiss, a nurse who in civilian life was "just...
...Broadway Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, turns the battle of the sexes into a surrealistic rout. Among the Venus flytraps, Barbara Harris glistens as the most hilariously voracious sexling since Lolita...
These losses should serve as propaedeutic. To let such precious landmarks slip away unheeded would seem a sad mistake; Boston, proud of her past, might look again before she shoves what remains of it into seeling night...
Frondizi was safely at home, his rest disturbed only by a sad 2 a.m. scene with 33 officers and men of his special presidential guard. The men offered to protect him with their lives. "My only protection is the law and our constitution," said Frondizi and went to bed. At 7:35 a.m., Frondizi's naval aide received a phone call, then placed the President under arrest. "Where are you taking me?" asked Frondizi. "To Martin Garcia Island," said the aide. "That is fitting," said Frondizi...
...fortuitous shipwreck. In Huxley's eyes, Farnaby represents a sickness in the soul of modern man. With his "flayed ferocious grin," Farnaby is aware of his own wretchedness and the corruption of the world to which he belongs, and there hovers about him a good deal of the sad seediness of the inhabitants of the early Huxley world of London intellectuals. He is like a man whose shoulders sag under the weight of dandruff...